From ...
Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsfeed.vmunix.org!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail
From: Erik Naggum
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Simple newbie list processing troubble
Date: 02 Oct 2002 23:05:16 +0000
Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway
Lines: 24
Message-ID: <3242588716893862@naggum.no>
References: <10b28c6c.0209280104.52056c24@posting.google.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1033599917 1741 129.240.65.5 (2 Oct 2002 23:05:17 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no
NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Oct 2002 23:05:17 GMT
Mail-Copies-To: never
User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:42795
* Dorai Sitaram
| I didn't understand your motivation for this example,
| but converting the example itself seems a lost cause.
If so, it would also be impossible to execute. Is it?
| Your only way out is to follow the Paul Graham tack of scrupulously
| abstaining from the ability to use the same symbol as both operator name
| and non-operator variable.
I think you should say "my only way out" when that is what you mean.
| You are writing as a Lisp1er (eg, Schemer) would, except that, unlike
| them, you are still saddled with the funcall/#' machinery even though it
| isn't buying you anything in an informational sense.
I think products and vendors should be judged by the intelligence of
their marketing. So Scheme must be the choice of the pretty dumb.
--
Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway
Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder.
Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.